Paul Sarbanes

By the time Barbara Mikulski ran for Congress in 1976, you could see the scorched earth of the battles she and others had fought against a federal highway plan that would have turned downtown Baltimore and some of its best neighborhoods into an ugly savannah of concrete.

From the empty lots of Sharp-Leadenhall, near Federal Hill, to the infamous "Highway to Nowhere" in the Franklin-Mulberry corridor on the west side, to the vacant fields along Boston Street in Canton, there was clear evidence of the heavy-handed, dull-headed effort to raze rowhouses and run interstate highways through the heart of the city.

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